Aus MeeGo wird Tizen – Intel & Samsung pushen Entwicklung *UPDATE: Acer & ASUS steigen mit ein*

UPDATE: Neben Samsung werden sich offenbar auch Acer und ASUS an der Entwicklung von Tizen Linux beteiligen. Angeblich denkt auch HTC über eine Teilnahme an dem von Intel begründeten Projekt auf Basis von MeeGo nach. Im Zuge des Einstiegs von Acer und ASUS beim Tizen Projekt sollen Pläne der beiden Hersteller für weitere Geräte mit MeeGo Linux allerdings auf Eis gelegt werden. Dies dürfte wohl auch das Aus für die jüngst eingeführten ersten MeeGo-Netbooks bedeuten, so dass der ASUS Eee PC X101 künftig wohl nur noch mit Windows angeboten wird und der Acer Aspire One D257 MeeGo eventuell recht bald vom Markt verschwindet. Dies ist für uns als Kunden sicherlich etwas enttäuschend, sind die beiden Geräte mit ihren Preisen von jeweils 169 bzw. knapp 200 Euro die aktuell billigsten Netbooks in ihrer jeweiligen Kategorie.

Quelle: DigiTimes – /UPDATE (Roland)

Vor knapp 3 Wochen haben wir durchaus fuer ein wenig Wirbel in der internationalen Techblogosphaere gesagt, als wir ganz frech behaupteten, dass Samsung MeeGo von Intel uebernehmen wuerde. Nun, die Wahrheit liegt dann tatsaechlich irgendwo dazwischen und wurde heute von der LiMo und Linux Foundation via Pressemitteilung bekanntgegeben: Aus MeeGo wird Tizen! Dieses Open Source Plattform wird vor allen Dingen durch Intel und Samsung gepusht und unterstuetzt HTML5- and WAC-basierte Anwendungen, die dann auf Smartphones, Tablets, Netbooks und Car-PCs laufen sollen. Im Fruehjahr soll der Startschuss fallen, wobei dies dann passend zum MWC in Barcelona der Fall sein koennte.

LiMo Foundation and Linux Foundation Announce New Open Source Software Platform, Tizen(TM)

New Cross-Device and Cross-Architecture Platform Will Drive Standards-Based Web Applications

LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Sep 28, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — LiMo Foundation(TM) and The Linux Foundation today announced a new open source project, Tizen(TM), to develop a Linux-based device software platform. Hosted at The Linux Foundation, Tizen is a standards-based, cross-architecture software platform, which supports multiple device categories including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The initial release of Tizen is targeted for Q1 2012, enabling first devices to come to market in mid-2012.

Tizen combines the best open source technologies from LiMo and The Linux Foundation and adds a robust and flexible standards-based HTML5 and WAC web development environment within which device-independent applications can be produced efficiently for unconstrained cross-platform deployment. This approach leverages the robustness and flexibility of HTML5 which is rapidly emerging as a preferred application environment for mobile applications and the broad carrier support of the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC). Tizen additionally carries a state-of-the-art reference user interface enabling the creation of highly attractive and innovative user experience that can be further customized by operators and manufacturers.

“LiMo Foundation views Tizen as a well-timed step change which unites major mobile Linux proponents within a renewed ecosystem with an open web vision of application development which will help device vendors to innovate through software and liberalize access to consumers for developers and service providers,” said Morgan Gillis, Executive Director of LiMo Foundation. “LiMo will maintain its focus on providing the industry with a broadly backed vendor- and service-neutral ecosystem grounded in the spirit of open and unconstrained opportunity that is embodied by Linux.”

The mobile industry continues to embrace Linux and open source technologies as key factors in lowering device realization cost, increasing flexibility and improving time to market and it is expected that Tizen will further enhance these effects due to its cross-category reach and strong focus on open standards.

“The Linux Foundation is pleased to host the Tizen platform,” said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation. “Open source platforms such as Tizen are good for Linux as they further its adoption across device categories. We look forward to collaborating with the LiMo Foundation and its members on this project.”
To participate in the project, please go to http://www.tizen.org.

About LiMo Foundation LiMo Foundation(TM) is a dedicated consortium of mobile industry leaders working together within an open and transparent governance model — with shared leadership and shared decision making — to deliver an open and globally consistent handset software platform based upon mobile Linux for use by the whole mobile industry. The Board of LiMo Foundation comprises ACCESS, Panasonic Mobile Communications, NEC CASIO Mobile Communications, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, SK Telecom, Telefonica and Vodafone. A full description of LiMo Foundation can be found at www.limofoundation.org.

About The Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source development community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Linux conferences, including LinuxCon, and generating original Linux research and content that advances the understanding of the Linux platform. Its web properties, including Linux.com, reach approximately two million people per month. The organization also provides extensive Linux training opportunities that feature the Linux kernel community’s leading experts as instructors. Follow The Linux Foundation on Twitter.

The Linux Foundation and Tizen are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. LiMo is a trademark of the LiMo Foundation.

via Pressemitteilung und Tizen.org